The storms came on Friday night, fast and furious. We lost power, but figured it wasn't a big deal and we'd get it back in a while. WRONG. Fortunately the kids were sleeping and kept sleeping. It was a DOOOOOZY--we thought it was over, but it just kept coming and coming and coming. Shannen got up Saturday morning and checked the basement--dry as a desert. We had no electricity, still, Saturday morning. Seems a BIG tree decided to fall over near the entrance to our subdivision and take out a few power lines. As we packed up our things to go to Mimi and Papa's for the morning, we noticed LOTS of restoration/water removal trucks and vans in the neighborhood. After some discussion with neighbors, it was decided that we (7640) might have been one of a SMALL handfull of homes without water damage. We lost most of our refrigerator contents as well as our inside freezer, but I'll take that any day over a basement full of yuck. We also had no tree/yard damage. THere were a LOT of branches in with people's trash this week. Again, we were VERY lucky.
Shannen is off in Mississippi for the week and all is pretty calm here. Yesterday Natalie went to play at a classmate's house for the afternoon and Landry slept most of the time she was gone. I got three junk drawers cleaned!!!! Today I was blessed with sleeping children (9:30am wake up call by Natalie) and then we had MORE rain. Since the pool was not going to be an option, we decided we'd go to the Children's Museum with the rest of Indianapolis' toddler set. It stormed while we were there, but the kids didn't even notice, as they were having SOOOO much fun at Playscape. Thanks to Sarah Martin, it was easy to corral both kiddos, as each had their own idea of what to play with when. After a TOTAL MELTDOWN (I DON'T NEED A NAP, MOM!!!!!), we made it to the car and headed home. After just a mile or so, guess what--two sleeping kids all the way home.
Tomorrow we're going to my friend Anna's house for a cookout/Willowcreek board meeting. It will be nice to see some of Natalie's school friends (and not cook). Thursday is a pool day and Friday we'll get ready for Shannen to come home!!!
I guess that is it from here. Have a great middle of the week everyone and best wishes to Susan, Fred, Nic, and Will (and Pete) on their journey from Iowa to Texas.
2 comments:
I had so much fun thanks for letting me invite myslef out with you today! See you at the pool on Thursday!
Sounds like you were really lucky! Thankfully us too! The packers worked hard today but will not push for us to leave IA until Thursday. Works for me! Sadly though, no time to run to Indy. See you July!
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